%0 Journal Article
%T Die Stadt zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit am Beispiel von Florenz
%A Trenkle
%A Friedrich
%J Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts
%D 2011
%I KIT Scientific Publishing
%X The article highlights various aspects of the changes of a town in transition from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Times. Using pre-Medici Florence as an example, it is shown how economic change leads to new social and political formations. Characterized by an increasing industrialization of the manufacturing pro-cesses as well as a flourishing and expanding banking system with international capital interlocking, the new early-capitalist economic system provokes social upheavals that call for political solutions. As a conse-quence, the town and its inhabitants undergo devastating crises which are even accelerated by natural disasters and the spread of Black Death.
%K History of Florence
%K Economic development
%K Deformation of social structure
%U http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/spatialconcepts_article_1245.pdf